I'd decided to wear these trousers, and I was not going to back down, no matter what.

After about three weeks, the detentions stopped suddenly.

I exulted quietly, and went on wearing my trousers whenever it was too cold for the pink dress.

When I left school four years later, there were a handful of girls wearing the trousers instead of skirts, and now whenever I see a girl dressed in the
Croydon High School winter uniform (which has been updated and is really quite attractive now) and wearing the nicely fitted trousers that are now an option listed in the uniform
manual, I feel a huge surge of pride.